Aging and utilization of hospital services in Hong Kong: retrospective cohort study

Jean Woo (), William Goggins, Xinhua Zhang, Sian Griffiths and Vivian Wong

International Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol. 55, issue 3, 207 pages

Abstract: Data obtained from this retrospective study may be used to project future usage for each type of service as a result of changing age structure of the population. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel/Switzerland 2010

Keywords: Duration of hospital stay; Mortality; Compression of morbidity; Last years of life; Aging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-0068-0

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